Marcia Ball

Tommy Castro wants to keep his guitar in his hands, his mouth at the microphone and his boots on stage for as long as he can. "I have every intention of going out like John Lee Hooker," Castro says in a phone interview. "I'm not stopping anytime soon. I know John Lee was out playing right up until the end and he was very contemporary. I knew him. He was always moving forward. He didn't resist something new coming along. He kept playing into his 80s. He played a night or two before he died. I recorded him on my album 'Guilty of Love' exactly a week before he died." To keep moving forward, however, Castro knew that he needed to change up from the...

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